{"id":3142,"date":"2015-01-22T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2015-01-22T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T13:38:16","slug":"interesting-words-and-expressions-collywobbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/interesting-words-and-expressions-collywobbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Words And Expressions \u2013 Collywobbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does <em>collywobbles<\/em>\u00a0mean?<\/p>\n<p>It is a noun and means\u00a0pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach; a bellyache or &#8220;butterflies in the stomach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.feminiya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/collywobbles.png\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you pronounce it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u02c8\/k\u0252l\u026aw\u0252b(\u0259)lz\/<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n[col\u00b7ly\u00b7wob\u00b7bles]\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shutterstock_136342094.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where does it come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Etymologist believe that\u00a0<em>collywobbles<\/em>\u00a0most likely has its origin in\u00a0<em>cholera morbus<\/em>, the Latin term for the disease cholera (the symptoms of which include severe gastrointestinal disturbance).<\/p>\n<p>How would\u00a0<em>cholera morbus<\/em>\u00a0have shifted into\u00a0<em>collywobbles<\/em>? By folk etymology \u2013 a process in which speakers make an unfamiliar term sound more familiar. In this case, the transformation was probably influenced by the words\u00a0<em>colic<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>wobble<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.breakingmuscle.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/full_width\/images\/bydate\/20130116\/shutterstock108473003.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you use it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; unfortunately I awoke this morning with <em>collywobbles<\/em>\u00a0and had to take some medicine, the doctor gave me, to settle my stomach.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does collywobbles\u00a0mean? It is a noun and means\u00a0pain in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[1297,1296,1295,1294,182,476,1212,166,1298],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-abdomen","tag-bellyache","tag-butterflies","tag-collywobbles","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-interesting-word","tag-january-2015","tag-learn","tag-stomach","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}